Last Name SKELTON

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Meaning Local: Of Skelton, a village near Ripon, county Yorks. Skeleton os not a happy corruption, but it is imitative, like a hundre other corrupted spellings. Also 'of Skelton,' a parish in county Chumberland.
Local: The hill of separation or boundary.
Origin English, Anglo-Saxon, Jewish, Irish, Maori

Rank 2,291 (2000 US census) 2,293 (1990 US census)
Count 14,542 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 90.49%, or 13159 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 5.71%, or 830 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.54%, or 79 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.51%, or 74 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.4%, or 204 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.35%, or 196 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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